The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Terry SouthernI met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
Terry SouthernAn absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
Terry Southern